Table 2.
Job satisfaction versus professional category in JUSH, April, 2009.
| variable | No. (%) | Not responded to satisfaction question |
Satisfied No.(%) |
Dissatisfied No. (%) |
P-value |
| Professional category* (N=145) | |||||
| Physician | 15(10.3) | 15 | 7(46.7) | 8(53.3) | |
| Anesthesia expert | 4(2.8) | 2 | 1(50.0) | 1(50.0) | |
| BSc nurse or mid wife | 9(6.2) | 8 | 4(50.0) | 4(50.0) | |
| Diploma nurse or midwife | 87(60.0) | 77 | 35(45.5) | 42(54.5) | |
| Health assistant | 5(3.4) | 4 | 3(75.0) | 1(25.0) | 0.656 |
| Health officer | 4(2.8) | 2 | 2(100.0) | 0(0.0) | |
| Medical lab technician | 9(6.2) | 9 | 3(33.3) | 6(66.7) | |
| Medical lab technologists | 6(4.1) | 5 | 2(40.0) | 3(60.0) | |
| Service years(N=87) | |||||
| <1 | 22(15.2) | 20 | 6(30.0) | 14(70.0) | |
| 1–5 | 36(24.8) | 34 | 13(38.2) | 21(61.8) | 0.536 |
| 6–10 | 11(7.6) | 11 | 3(27.3) | 8(72.7) | |
| >_10 | 18(12.4) | 18 | 9(50.0) | 9(50.0) | |
| Position (N=145) | |||||
| clinical | 113(77.9) | 100 | 49(49.0) | 51(51.0) | |
| preventive | 12(8.3) | 9 | 4(44.4) | 5(55.6) | 0.923 |
| diagnostic | 15(10.3) | 14 | 5(35.7) | 9(64.3) | |
| therapeutic | 3(2.1) | 2 | 1(50.0) | 1(50.0) | |
| Monthly salary (N=119) | |||||
| <1000 | 49(33.8) | 40 | 21(52.5) | 19(47.5) | |
| 1000–2000 | 62(42.8) | 60 | 25(41.7) | 35(58.3) | 0.554 |
| >2000 | 8(5.5) | 8 | 4(50.0) | 4(50.0) | |
| Off-work job(N=144) | |||||
| yes | 51(35.2) | 45 | 16(35.6) | 29(64.4) | 0.051 |
| no | 93(64.1) | 82 | 44(53.7) | 38(46.3) | |
| Pay for off-work job(N=33) | |||||
| <500 | 27(18.6) | 23 | 7(28.0) | 18(72.0) | 0.075 |
| <500 | 6(4.1) | 6 | 4(66.7) | 2(33.3) | |
| Total | 145(100) | 127 | 60(41.4) | 67(46.2) |
• The categories of pharmacist (1), pharmacy technician (1), druggist (2), X-ray technician (1) and unknown (1), are not in the table as the number is 1 or 2 only.